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H. HILDE.

GIGAR MOLD.

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Patented Sept. 2, 1884.

Unire Smarts HERMANN HILDE, OF ROSSVEIN, GERMANY.

CIGAR-MOLD.

PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.- 304,322, dated September 2, 1884.

Application led November 14, lESB.

To all whom, it may concern: l

Be it known that I, HERMANN HILDE, a citizen of Germany, and a resident of the city of Rosswein, Germany, have invented a new and Improved Cigar-Mold, of which the following is a specification.

Figure I represents a longitudinal section of the cigar-mold put together, and 'showing the cigar in the same. Figs. II and III are end views of the same. Figs. IV and V show longitudinal section and end view ofthe part ofthe mold forming the head of the cigar, and Figs. VI and VII show end View and longitudinal section of the lower part of the mold.

Similar letters represent similar parts.

This invention relates to cigar-molds; and it consists in a cigar-mold comprising two transversely-divided sections or parts, which are beveled at their proximate ends, so as to form a V-shaped annular groove extending from the exterior face inward, and having the ridge or apex of said groove coincident with the lineV of division between saidparts or sections, as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, A and B are the two parts forming the mold. The part A is hollowed out to give the desired shape of the head of the cigar, while the part B is hollowed out to correspond with the desired shape of the lower end ofthe cigar. The proximate ends of the two sections A and B are beveled inwardly, as shown at a and b, so as to form a broad circumferential V-shaped groove extending from the exterior circumference partly through toward the interior, and having its ridge or apex coincident with the line of separation of said sections. The bevels ce b allow the operator to grasp the sections conveniently at their proximate ends, for forcing them apart, and

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the groove makes it easier to take hold of the cigar. The same motion will answer for both purposes, for the thumb and forenger in closing on the cigar will naturally, by their pressure on the beveled faces a b, free the sections A B apart. IVhen the cigar C has been finished and is still moist, the head end is forced into the part A, while the part B is forced over the lower part of the cigar until the parts B and A meet and come together near the middle, at D, and the cigar is then allowed to dry in said mold.

To facilitate the passing of the mold over the ends of the cigar, paper strips s may be placed upon the upper and lower surfaces of the cigar; but to apracticed workman this I Willsoon be found to be unnecessary.

By this arrangement of dividing the mold in the middle crosswise any change either in the shape of the head or of the lower part of 6o the cigar can easily be made by changing only one-halt' of the mold.

I am aware that it is not new to separate the parts or sections of a mold from one an-v other by transverse division, or to make a mold of two such sections separable on a trans- HERMANN HILDE.

Vitncsses d J. UHLIG, O. SCHMIDT. 

